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Home for the Homicides: A Holly & Mark Mystery

by Elle Cosimano

A holiday-town murder, with rivalry on the case

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A holiday-town murder, with rivalry on the case

In Christmas, where the festive season lasts all year, a tourist’s murder turns a picture-perfect town into the setting for a race against time. Special Agents Holly Frost and Mark Shepherd must investigate before the Jingle Bell Jubilee, while competing for a single promotion and navigating the fallout from a previous holiday-party hookup. The mystery’s setup combines a closed-in seasonal community, a professional rivalry, and romantic complications, with the festival’s economic importance raising the stakes beyond the case itself.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers of holiday-set cozy mysteries and whodunits.
  • For readers who enjoy crime plots paired with romantic tension and workplace rivalry.

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Holiday communityMurder investigationProfessional rivalryRomantic complications

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Book overview

'Tis the season . . . for murder.

"The festive, quirky love child of a holiday whodunit and a steamy romance." --Sara Raasch


When Special Agents Holly Frost and Mark Shepherd report to the idyllic town of Christmas to investigate a very less than idyllic murder, they're in for more than the average whodunnit.

Welcome to Christmas, a town so cozy and charming it could be the backdrop of a Hallmark movie, where crime is never in season and it's the holidays all year round. So when a tourist is found stabbed to death by an icicle ornament in the middle of the town nativity scene, the local police are out of their depth--after all, how do you find a criminal in a town where crime doesn't exist?

The stakes are high: the whole town is relying on Holly and Mark to solve the crime before the annual Jingle Bell Jubilee festival (which naturally the town's entire economic survival relies on), plus, whichever of them cracks the case will receive a promotion to Major Crimes--and there's only one spot.

Holly and Mark are both on thin ice after screwing up on the job. This assignment is their one shot at redemption, if they can put aside their bitter rivalry. And of course, it's not only their careers on the line, it's their hearts, too--regrets of their holiday party hookup last year haunt them like ghosts of Christmas past, so they both want to wrap up this rom-com gone wrong as quickly as possible. But with just twelve days until the festival, the countdown to catch a killer--without killing each other--is on.

Co-authored by New York Times bestseller Elle Cosimano (Finlay Donovan series) and USA Today bestseller Hannah Morrissey (Black Harbor series), Home for theHomicides is a sexy, light-hearted romp, with a dash of merriment and murder.

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